Magnetic resonance thermal imaging combined with SMASH navigators in the presence of motion
Date
2012-07-05
Authors
Seo, Youngseob
Willig-Onwuachi, Jacob
Walton, Jeffrey H.
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Citation
Youngseob Seo, Jacob Willig-Onwuachi, Jeffrey H Walton. 2012. "Magnetic resonance thermal imaging combined with SMASH navigators in the presence of motion.." J Appl Clin Med Phys, Volume 13, Issue 4, pp. 3792 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v13i4.3792
Abstract
This study develops and tests an MR thermometry method combined with SMASH navigators in phantom experiments mimicking human liver motion with the purpose of detecting and correcting motion artifacts in thermal MR images. Experimental data were acquired on a 3T MRI scanner. Motion artifacts of mobile phantoms mimicking human liver motion were detected and corrected using the SMASH navigators and then MR temperature maps were obtained using a proton resonant frequency (PRF) shift method with complex image subtraction. Temperature acquired by MR thermal imaging was compared to that measured via thermocouples. MR thermal imaging combined with the SMASH navigator technique resulted in accurate temperature maps of the mobile phantoms compared to temperatures measured using the thermocouples. The differences between the obtained and measured temperatures varied from 8.2°C to 14.2°C and 2.2°C to 4.9°C without and with motion correction, respectively. Motion correction improved the temperature acquired by MR thermal imaging by > 55%. The combination of the MR thermal imaging and SMASH navigator technique will enable monitoring and controlling heat distribution and temperature change in tissues during thermal therapies and will be a very important tool for cancer treatment in mobile organs.
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© 2012 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.